Buyer’s Guides

Guides

Straight answers to the questions people ask before they buy deer — real numbers, our published pricing, and honest notes on the parts that depend on your property rather than ours.


  • AI or Natural Cover? Breeding Decisions for a Small Herd

    AI or Natural Cover? Breeding Decisions for a Small Herd

    Artificial insemination versus letting a buck run with your does — what each one costs, what AI actually requires that people underestimate, and why most small ranch herds should do both.


  • What a Whitetail Score Actually Tells You

    What a Whitetail Score Actually Tells You

    Score is the whitetail industry’s shorthand, but one number hides a lot. What gets measured, why gross and net differ, why velvet inflates a figure, and the four questions to ask before a score means anything at all.


  • How to Read a Whitetail Pedigree

    How to Read a Whitetail Pedigree

    What a whitetail pedigree actually tells you and what it does not — how to read sire and dam lines, why DNA parentage verification matters, how much a famous buck three generations back really contributes, and the red…


  • How to Start a High-Fence Whitetail Ranch in Texas

    How to Start a High-Fence Whitetail Ranch in Texas

    A complete guide to starting a high-fence whitetail operation in Texas — carrying capacity, fencing, permits, what to budget, which deer to buy, feed, harvest discipline, and a realistic timeline from bare ground to mature bucks.


  • How Long Until You’re Hunting Mature Bucks?

    How Long Until You’re Hunting Mature Bucks?

    How many seasons it takes to hunt genuinely mature whitetails on a new high-fence ranch in Texas — the stocker buck path, the home-raised path, what compresses the timeline, and the one mistake that pushes it back every…


  • How Many Deer Do You Need to Start a High-Fence Herd?

    How Many Deer Do You Need to Start a High-Fence Herd?

    How many whitetail does and bucks to buy when you are stocking a Texas high-fence ranch — sizing a foundation herd to your acreage, why bred does beat open yearlings, and what twenty does turns into over five…


  • What It Actually Costs to Stock a High-Fence Ranch in Texas

    What It Actually Costs to Stock a High-Fence Ranch in Texas

    Real numbers on what it costs to put whitetail deer on your Texas ranch — bred doe and stocker buck pricing, delivery, boarding, and a worked example of a foundation herd. Published pricing from Crown Point Whitetails in…